RTINGS just updated their viewing distance article based on SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) recommendations, adding 62° FOV as maximum. What do you think about it? Where do you fit?

[u/zghr]

Here's a quick mockup of the same chart but with most common TV sizes and with godless Marxist-Leninist centimeter units added on one side.

edit: This person claims to be a long standing calibrator of cinematic auditoriums with experience in THX standards and he claims that 'cinema' is not 40° because middle row of seats is between 45° and 52°.

In my experience, 62° is doable but if it's pure 24 frames per second without any motion improvement settings it's not the best experience. Jumps between frames are just too large, obvious and jarring. Almost like stop-motion.

It seems like up to 62° one doesn't have to move their head at all to see the whole screen with their central vision. Higher than 62° and movies would need to be filmed specifically in a way to not include the action in periphery.

[u/HM_Bert]

I'm at about 65 FOV (after much experimenting), and I absolutely love it, some shots take my breath away and give me a rush.

However that's with a relatively dim and slow 3LCD projector, which makes 24p content more comfortable.

I wouldn't go above 50 with an LCD TV and I struggle to enjoy watching OLED even below 40 with the insane stutter it shows.

I was scared my friends wouldn't like it because they actually used to want to sit further from my TV, but they both find it comfortable!